Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo GraphicBooster External Laptop GPU Released

The Fujitsu-Siemens external GPU was demonstrated back in November but is now making its way to selected retailers (we don’t know which, yet). The idea is simple and GPU makers had this working in the labs for years: put an discrete GPU in an external box, with its own power supply, andconnectit via external PCI-E to the laptop.

So far, Fujitsu is the only laptop makerthat made the plunge. The Amilo GraphicBoosterhas a ATI Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB of memory. It can drive three displays at once and also serves as a 2-port USB HUB. The photo above doesn’t show the big external PCI-E cable, but you can see it in the video in the full post.

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